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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Spreadsheets get out of hand

Todays Comic

True story: I was once working on a model (which eventually became a multi-million dollar business for the company, and has since been patented.  The prototype work was being done partly in Excel.

While I was gone on vacation, my boss and co-workers were forced to give an update on this work to management and a key client.  They had a bit of trouble running it … because a key parameter was located in cell AC8492.

It wasn’t intended to be there of course; the model just got built day by day and while it was in preliminary stages it was clear enough for ME to work on for several hours a day – but nearly impossible for anyone else to figure out then (or me to figure out now, should I need to go back to it.

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